This article reexamines and extends the literature on the use of migration rates to estimate compensating differentials as measures of regional quality of life. I estimate an interregional migration regression for the UK and use the results to measure regional quality of life and standard of...

This paper reexamines the use of migration rates to estimate compensating differentials as measures of regional quality of life. Applying a model of interregional migration to the U.K., I estimate a migration regression, the results of which I use to measure regional quality of life and standard...

The aim of the paper is to study the relation between the demand for human rights and for economic prosperity. It analyzes the demand not, as it is often done in the literature, from the "voice" perspective (political activity), but rather looks at the "exit" perspective (migration patterns)....